Mountain Goats/James Yorkston/Anti-Folk

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Would it be a fair assumption to ask if the new hillbilly movement in rock'n'roll has taken on new meaning with the advent of a war? i.e. A return to simplier times?

― Cliff Steele, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

No, because Antifolk is as far removed from "hillbilly" lifestyle as possible: ie, being drawn almost exclusively from New York City, songs dealing with mainly urban concerns (television, heroin), and, indeed, are somewhat depoliticised (the closest the movement has come to anything directly political, as far as I can remember, would be Dufus' "Hillary Clinton").

Are Yorkstone and the Goats even Antifolk, anyway? They seem more... folk than antifolk.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Antifolk itself is more folk than antifolk.

― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

But aha, it is I... ANTIANTIFOLK, here to foil your plans to outfolk everyone else!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Folking folk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't give a folk!

Though I like the irony of a return to simpler times being inspired by a Coen Brothers movie more so than antifolk.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

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